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Sonia will name party chiefs for Haryana, HP
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh/Shimla/Dehra Dun, September 12
Acting on expected lines, the newly elected state Congress committees of Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand today authorised party president Sonia Gandhi to nominate their new respective chiefs.

All action surrounding the appointment of the Congress president for Haryana is, once again, back in Delhi. With the formality of a resolution from the Pradesh Congress Committee authorising Congress president Sonia Gandhi to take the final call on the next party chief for the state, Congressmen are headed for the Delhi darbar.

At a meeting of PCC delegates held at the Panchayat Bhawan here, the resolution was moved by HPCC president Phool Chand Mullana and seconded by Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Congress MPs Birender Singh and Ram Parkash.

In Himachal, the newly elected delegates of the state party committee adopted a single-line resolution, authorising Sonia Gandhi to nominate the next incumbent.

In Uttarakhand also, the proposal to authorise Sonia Gandhi to pick up the new party chief was adopted unanimously at a meeting of the Uttarakhand Pradesh Congress Committee attended among others by Bhola Pandey, co in charge of party affairs in the state.